Example sentences of "[to-vb] convince [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 2 | To try to convince us that anyone can use a computer within 5 minutes , Amstrad put big , brightly coloured keys on it . |
| 3 | There was an interesting comment in the Guardian this morning , suggesting that Leslie Silver is only professing an interest in Gazza as a kind of public relations exercise , to try to convince us that he is still ambitious for the club after the Batty business . |
| 4 | Fran stopped , forcing the angry hysteria from her voice , realising it would do nothing to help convince him that he was wrong . |
| 5 | She is alleged to have convinced him that she was his mother and then forced him to have sex with her . |